[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 115 (Tuesday, June 16, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32858-32859]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-15867]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Institute of Standards and Technology


Notice of Government Owned Invention Available for Licensing and 
Prospective Grant of Exclusive Patent License

SUMMARY: The invention listed below is owned by the United States 
Government, as represented by the Department of Commerce. The 
Government's ownership interest in the invention is available for 
licensing in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 207 and 37 CFR part 404 to 
achieve expeditious commercialization of results of Federally funded 
research and development.
    This Notice is also in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 209(c)(1) and 37 
CFR 404.7(a)(1)(i) that the National Institute of Standards and 
Technology (``NIST''), U.S. Department of Commerce, is contemplating 
the grant of an exclusive license to practice the invention embodied in 
the invention listed below, U.S. Patent Number 5,620,857, titled, 
``Optical Trap for Detection and Quantitation of Subzeptomolar 
Quantities of Analytes,'' in the field of use of diagnostic, analytical 
and research applications for the detection, measurement and/or 
monitoring of analytes, and in the licensed territory of the United 
States of America, its territories, possessions and commonwealths and 
all other countries in which NIST obtains patent protection at the 
request and expense of Bayer Corporation, to Bayer Corporation, having 
a place of business in Tarrytown, NY.

DATES: Comments must be received in writing no later than September 14, 
1998.

ADDRESSES: Comments on the Prospective Grant must be submitted to: 
Terry Lynch, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Industrial 
Partnerships Program, Building 820, Room 213, Gaithersburg, MD 20899.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Terry Lynch, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Industrial 
Partnership Program, Building 820, Room 213, Gaithersburg, MD 20899.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The invention available for licensing is:
    NIST Docket Number: 94-042.
    Title: Optical Trap for the Detection and Quantitation of 
Subzeptomolar Quantities of Analytes.
    Abstract: Tightly focused beams of laser light are used as 
``optical tweezers'' to trap and manipulate polarizable objects such as 
microspheres of glass or latex with diameters on the order of 4.5 
micrometers. When analytes are allowed to adhere to the microspheres, 
small quantities of these analytes can be manipulated, thus allowing 
their detection and quantitation even when amounts and concentrations 
of the analytes are extremely small. Illustrative examples include 
measuring the strength needed to break antibody-antigen bonds and the 
detection of DNA sequences.
    The prospective exclusive license will be royalty-bearing and will 
comply with the terms and conditions of 35 U.S.C. 209 and 37 CFR 404.7. 
The prospective exclusive license may be granted unless, within ninety 
days from the date of this published Notice, NIST receives written 
evidence and argument which establish that the grant of the license 
would not be consistent with the requirements of 35 U.S.C. 209 and 37 
CFR 404.7.

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    Dated: July 9, 1998.
Robert E. Hebner,
Acting Deputy Director.
[FR Doc. 98-15867 Filed 6-15-98; 8:45 am]
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